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intheflow

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14. I don't think so.

Reply to justiceischeap (Reply #12)

Fri May 25, 2012, 09:05 AM

May 2012

But even if they were, that's Jewish tradition and not how modern Christian Biblical literalists interpret the text. When they bother to read it in its entirety, that is.

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